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On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Michael McPherson wrote:
> Ever hear of "Electronic Traffic Priority" ?
>
> Check out Cisco's new CiscoAssure Policy Networking.
> It is application programming interface for recognizing and
> prioritizing electronic traffic.
>
> Bandwidth Regulation
>
> This means that someone or some institution (USPO & universal e-mail)
> shall regulate who & what gets bandwidth priority. Sort of like
> driving down the highway when an emergency vehicle's siren and flashing
> lights forces you to yield the highway to that vehicle.
>
> FCC to make or brake ISPs
>
> Also, don't be surprised if ISPs are categorized by the nature of the
> traffic their bandwidth can handle according to speed, # of routers
> between ISP & backbone and nature/volume of clients.
>
> This is the future of the ISP industry. Personal service to customers
> becomes second fiddle..... providing high priority internet service shall
> become the sign of being 1st class.
>
> Discrimination in Virtual Society
>
> As we perceive and discriminate between the drivers of luxury automobiles
> and the economical vehicle on our highways....so shall we discriminate
> between the 1st class, 2nd class or 3rd class bandwidth carrier on the
> Super Information Highway.
In case you missed it....& supporting my "Future of the Internet"
prediction,
Excerpts from CBS's MarketWatch.
Cisco announced it will supply high speed gigabit routers to
America Online Inc. Cisco said its products will increase the
speed and capacity of AOL's Internet service.
Eventually, the routers could help AOL offer
so-called quality of service features for which customers would
pay extra in order to guarantee immediate delivery of high-priority
communications,
Cisco said. Such features are required in order for voice or
video traffic to be delivered without interruption over
the Internet.
AOL is currently supporting more than 730,000 simultaneous
users more than 18,800 Web hits per second. (end of excerpts)
Full Circle
Seems like the ISP industry has done a full circle...in that
everyone on the early inet-access & com-priv lists were poking
fun at the AOLuser's ignorances of the Internet.
Michael McPherson sccm@netrax.net
Advisor to Government and The High Tech Industry
Creating Original & Innovative Business Models for E-Commerce
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